An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.